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The Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition (HMER) task is a critical branch in the field of OCR. Recent studies have demonstrated that incorporating bidirectional context information significantly improves the performance of HMER…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hanbo Cheng , Chenyu Liu , Pengfei Hu , Zhenrong Zhang , Jiefeng Ma , Jun Du

Deep learning applies multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with multiple levels of feature extraction. This emerging technique has reshaped the research landscape of face recognition (FR) since 2014, launched by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mei Wang , Weihong Deng

Recognizing handwritten mathematical expressions (HMER) is a challenging task due to the inherent two-dimensional structure, varying symbol scales, and complex spatial relationships among symbols. In this paper, we present a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shree Mitra , Ritabrata Chakraborty , Nilkanta Sahu

Deep Learning and Machine Learning based models have become extremely popular in text processing and information retrieval. However, the non-linear structures present inside the networks make these models largely inscrutable. A significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Sourav Saha , Debapriyo Majumdar , Mandar Mitra

Handwritten digit recognition remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with applications ranging from postal code reading to document digitization. This paper presents an ensemble-based approach that combines Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Syed Sajid Ullah , Li Gang , Mudassir Riaz , Ahsan Ashfaq , Salman Khan , Sajawal Khan

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that offers comprehensive alphanumeric recognition of handwritten and printed characters at electronic speed by merely scanning the document. Recently, the understanding of visual data has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Atman Mishra , A. Sharath Ram , Kavyashree C

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities aims to digitize its Medieval Latin Dictionary. This dictionary entails record cards referring to lemmas in medieval Latin, a low-resource language. A crucial step of the digitization process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Philipp Koch , Gilary Vera Nuñez , Esteban Garces Arias , Christian Heumann , Matthias Schöffel , Alexander Häberlin , Matthias Aßenmacher

Handwriting-based gender classification is a well-researched problem that has been approached mainly by traditional machine learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based approach for this task. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Evyatar Illouz , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

In this paper we deal with the offline handwriting text recognition (HTR) problem with reduced training datasets. Recent HTR solutions based on artificial neural networks exhibit remarkable solutions in referenced databases. These deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 José Carlos Aradillas , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Pablo M. Olmos

Handwritten word recognition from document images using deep learning is an active research area in the field of Document Image Analysis and Recognition. In the present era of Big data, since more and more documents are being generated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Bulla Rajesh , Abhishek Kumar Gupta , Ayush Raj , Mohammed Javed , Shiv Ram Dubey

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

Documents are a core part of many businesses in many fields such as law, finance, and technology among others. Automatic understanding of documents such as invoices, contracts, and resumes is lucrative, opening up many new avenues of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Nishant Subramani , Alexandre Matton , Malcolm Greaves , Adrian Lam

In the past few years, cross-modal image-text retrieval (ITR) has experienced increased interest in the research community due to its excellent research value and broad real-world application. It is designed for the scenarios where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Min Cao , Shiping Li , Juntao Li , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

This article discusses the problem of handwriting recognition in Kazakh and Russian languages. This area is poorly studied since in the literature there are almost no works in this direction. We have tried to describe various approaches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Daniyar Nurseitov , Kairat Bostanbekov , Maksat Kanatov , Anel Alimova , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Galymzhan Abdimanap

Text watermarking algorithms are crucial for protecting the copyright of textual content. Historically, their capabilities and application scenarios were limited. However, recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Aiwei Liu , Leyi Pan , Yijian Lu , Jingjing Li , Xuming Hu , Xi Zhang , Lijie Wen , Irwin King , Hui Xiong , Philip S. Yu

We propose a new framework for the recognition of online handwritten graphics. Three main features of the framework are its ability to treat symbol and structural level information in an integrated way, its flexibility with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Frank Julca-Aguilar , Harold Mouchère , Christian Viard-Gaudin , Nina S. T. Hirata

Handwritten Word Recognition and Spotting is a challenging field dealing with handwritten text possessing irregular and complex shapes. The design of deep neural network models makes it necessary to extend training datasets in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Abhirup Das , Ankan Kumar Bhunia , Perla Sai Raj Kishore , Partha Pratim Roy

Deep LSTM is an ideal candidate for text recognition. However text recognition involves some initial image processing steps like segmentation of lines and words which can induce error to the recognition system. Without segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Anupama Ray , Sai Rajeswar , Santanu Chaudhury

We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic~(Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1,600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic. Each document image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mehreen Saeed , Adrian Chan , Anupam Mijar , Joseph Moukarzel , Georges Habchi , Carlos Younes , Amin Elias , Chau-Wai Wong , Akram Khater

Handwritten numeral recognition is in general a benchmark problem of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Compared to the problem of printed numeral recognition, the problem of handwritten numeral recognition is compounded due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Nibaran Das , Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Sudip Saha , Syed Sahidul Haque